Anthony Stewart Head

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Anthony Stewart Head is an English actor most widely known for his role as Rupert Giles in the American television drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for the role of "Frank N Furter" in the London revival of The Rocky Horror Show and for a series of coffee commercials in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, outside of Buffy, he is more commonly credited simply as Anthony Head, or occasionally Tony Head.

Success on the stage and a number of brief appearances on American television, such as in the short-lived VR-5, led to accepting the role of Rupert Giles in Buffy in 1997. Head left the regular cast of Buffy during the show's sixth season and subsequently appeared several times as a guest star. In many interviews at the time, Head said he left the show in order to spend more time with his family having realised that he had spent most of the year outside of England for more than half his youngest daughter's life.

There is persistent talk of Head starring in a Buffy spin-off series for the BBC entitled Ripper, but so far nothing has come of this. Joss Whedon said of the project in 2005: "it's something I really want to get off the ground, but the ground is kinda sticky."

He is one of two actors to have guest starred in the Doctor Who franchise, in the 2006 series episode "School Reunion" as Mr Finch, an alias for Brother Lassar, the leader of a group of Krillitanes, creatures that have used templates of other species to build their own appearance, who infilltrated a school to become 'gods'.